Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, on Wednesday, described
the adultery allegation against Apostle Johnson Suleman of the Omega
Power Ministry by one Miss Stephanie Otobo as “high level conspiracy
meant to destroy the integrity of the pastor and silence his critical
and principled voice of truth and dissent in a nation fast becoming a
one-party state.”

In a statement issued in
Ado-Ekiti by Fayose’s Special Assistant on Public Communications and New
Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor declared his support for Apostle
Suleiman, saying: ” I stand by Apostle Suleiman and other men of
God being directly or indirectly persecuted by the All Progressives
Congress (APC) cabal.”

The governor said; “This
was the same way they tried to drag the General Overseer of the
Redeemed Christians Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye
in the mud. The whole world was aghast at how they insulted and
ridiculed the highly-revered RCCG General Overseer. But for the outcry
from all over the world, they almost bundled out Pastor Adeboye from his
position as RCCG General Overseer and could have even arrested the
General Overseer of Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo.”

He further said; “their
evil plan is to destroy the Church so as to silence every perceivable
strong voice of opposition. And their mode of operation is to take on
every vocal, principled, and popular man of God one after the other.

“Should
it not interest Nigerians and the international community that up till
today, none of those herdsmen that killed thousands of Nigerians in
Benue, Enugu, Delta, Ogun, Plateau and Kaduna states have been arrested?
Even those arrested in connection with the murder n Abuja-based female
pastor, Eunice Elisha have been released.”

Governor
Fayose wondered why all the adultery allegations and blackmail against
Apostle Suleiman surfaced only after he spoke out against the reckless
and indiscriminate killing of Christians in Southern Kaduna and his
subsequent encounter with the Department of State Services (DSS).

“This,
no doubt, is a continuation of the desperate but despicable and
condemnable attempts to destroy opposition and the voices of reason in
this country so as to subjugate every decent Nigerian and turn the
country into a banana republic.

“After
politically subjugating many Nigerians, including a section of the
Judiciary that refused to do their bidding; they have now turned on men
of God, this is condemnable,” the governor said.

Governor
Fayose charged the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and other
Christian bodies not to stay aloof but to stand up resolutely and speak
out vociferously against what he called “orchestrated attempt to destroy
the Church and respected Church leaders in Nigeria.”

He
berated those behind the travails of Apostle Suleiman as confirmed
polygamists, serial adulterers, and others whose holier-than-thou
attitude was sheer hypocrisy.

“Anyone who has a
case against any man of God should swear an oath, proceed to the law
court and face the rigours, rather than engage in media trial and
character assassination, which have become the hallmark of this
administration.”

Governor Fayose wondered why
the perpetrators of the wicked scheme against Apostle Suleiman were not
relenting even after the father of the woman making the wild allegations
had punctured her loathsome and outrageous claims.

“The
family of Stephanie Otobo has disclaimed her and her claims. Rather
than own up and recant, those paying for the entire drama are making her
to keep changing and modifying her claims, with they all still
collapsed like a pack of cards. All other efforts to enlist other
blackmailers against this man of God have likewise collapsed
irretrievably.

“I therefore make
bold to say that I stand by Apostle Suleiman. I also call on all those
who believe in me to do likewise and carry the message abroad. To me,
this plot against Apostle Suleiman is madness carried too far.

“One
wonders why this same resources and vigour with which Apostle Suleiman
is being blackmailed have not been deployed into confronting those
murderous herdsmen that are slaughtering Nigerians like animals across
the country,” Fayose concluded.